Dude -- sign me up for video over broadband! With inexpensive DSL having just enough bandwidth for service...we're talking, phone, TV and broadband for $25 a month, plus whatever Venice or its peer charges. Even assuming $20-25, it would still cost less than basic cable in NJ.
I would totally buy a brown iPod (read:not-a-Zune-though). Never underestimate the power of retro -- the more it looks like wood, the more luddites like me like it.
Now there's a thought...an analog pocketable wooden mini-record-player. iVinyl!
that's perfectly fair. i just roll my eyes at people who condescendingly dismiss any religion on the assumption that people didn't "really" have reason to believe it, as proper modern-secular-humanist reasoning would reveal with proper interrogation.
i have lots of doubts about Christianity -- but the more I study the early texts, and their subsequent redactions and commentaries, the less I find it reasonable to doubt that the eyewitnesses really did think they saw what they said they saw. modern dismissals of them as hicks just rubs me the wrong way. I feel similarly about theories and religions I don't share -- I happen to think Muhammad and Buddha were wrong -- but I don't think they or their immediate followers were foolish or stupid. Just incorrect. Not to say all beliefs aren't stupid.......just that categorically dismissing all metaphysical beliefs is one of the sillier trends of our age.
questioning Darl to his face, similarly, would help you little. he made his statements and is sticking to them, and so we deal with them -- considering them right, wrong, deceitful, or lunatic ravings. but we don't fool ourselves by thinking "if we could only ask Darl a few more questions the truth would come out!"
I certainly agree with that -- but differentiating enthusiasm from truth is quite different than snorting at enthusiasm as being meaningless as evidence of at least personal conviction.
So says a witness who, conveniently, can't be questioned.
You mean, because many of the witnesses were so vocal that they were imprisoned or killed for undermining the Roman socioreligious order when they wouldn't recant? Or do you mean things that happened before Youtube can't be true?
I think it's absolutely stupid to use a DVD jukebox.
Judged by convenience/ease/performance, I agree. But no level of RAID tiering is going to help you with the one thing off-line (tape/removable disk) solves quite nicely: that is to say, our good friend, more-than-a-surge-protector-can-stop, lightning.
Technology is great and all but this nonsense that people should always have the latest and greatest crap is one of the leading causes for our negative savings rate.
Erm...I understand not *wanting* a cell -- but I'd hardly call the technology "latest and greatest", seeing as it's over 20 years old, and has been ubiquitous since the late nineties (2+ *billion* in service at the moment). They're only the "latest and greatest" in the sense of the original Nintendo, or the second coming of flannel.
I don't see how people can get themselves into paying for fake goods that exist in a game.
Pretty much all entertainment is virtual. If paying someone for a software patch to a game that extends play or makes it more fun is reasonable, then so is paying someone for a software permission to use something that extends play and makes it more fun.
Now, reasonable does not mean it's *worth* your or my money. Certainly not mine. But for someone already throwing out dozens of dollars each month, who has the money to spend, and is willing to throw out an extra few to do something that they think is fun without the effort of programming/finding/whatevering it themselves.....I'm not sure that's so much weirder than paying $14 for a two-hour movie and a little bag of buttered grain, that I could obtain for myself with a walk to the library and a small garden.
Personally, I'd like to see notebook makers focus on getting the kind of battery life you see in the Nintendo DS (but using a larger battery, of course). Even if speeds are knocked in half, that's okay.
True that -- "battery optimized/reduced performance" are nice settings to have, but still too fast -- I want an automated "just puttering on the net option" -- if photoshop isn't open, scale back to 800 MHz, underclock my video card, turn off my fans...I want 10 hours+ of life. Cryptonome was working on something like that for Mactels...but he disappeared a month ago: http://www.increw.com/
I'd sure be interested in adding a grammar checker to my filter -- not that failed messages should all be hosed, but any message with a paragraph of gibberish should be flagged -- and grammar checkers have been correctly picking up run-ons and bad subject-object agreement for over a decade.
Makes sense. I've done research since then -- the modern US supercarriers have power plants that approach 500 MW -- full, land based reactors are 500-2000, so it seems likely they could power a city. Other ships seem to be in the 20-30 range. All from Wikipedia, mind you, so take with a grain of salt.
Uhm... the electricity consumption rate in 1929 and 2006 are pretty different, I guess... Back then, I think they only have light bulbs. We now have TVs, PCs, Washing Machines, Microwave owens, Air conditioners...
All true, but it's also important to note that back then battleships and aircraft carriers largely only had light bulbs, and now have TVs, PCs, Washing Machines, Microwave owens and Air conditioners. I would suspect a single nuclear-powered supership rolling off the line today could power the whole fleet from the 20's. Twice.
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yeah...but i kinda figure if i wash my hands somewhat regularly, then the germies on my keyboard have become *my* germies over time...i don't expect to actually get sick when exposed to 400 or 4000 percent more of the germs i'm exposed to every day -- that my body's used to fighting -- when compared to a single exposure to someone with a novel strain of the flu.
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Dude -- sign me up for video over broadband! With inexpensive DSL having just enough bandwidth for service...we're talking, phone, TV and broadband for $25 a month, plus whatever Venice or its peer charges. Even assuming $20-25, it would still cost less than basic cable in NJ.
I would totally buy a brown iPod (read:not-a-Zune-though). Never underestimate the power of retro -- the more it looks like wood, the more luddites like me like it.
Now there's a thought...an analog pocketable wooden mini-record-player. iVinyl!
hahaha....true indeed. i shall arrange for the appropriate keyboard exorcisms!
that's perfectly fair. i just roll my eyes at people who condescendingly dismiss any religion on the assumption that people didn't "really" have reason to believe it, as proper modern-secular-humanist reasoning would reveal with proper interrogation.
i have lots of doubts about Christianity -- but the more I study the early texts, and their subsequent redactions and commentaries, the less I find it reasonable to doubt that the eyewitnesses really did think they saw what they said they saw. modern dismissals of them as hicks just rubs me the wrong way. I feel similarly about theories and religions I don't share -- I happen to think Muhammad and Buddha were wrong -- but I don't think they or their immediate followers were foolish or stupid. Just incorrect. Not to say all beliefs aren't stupid.......just that categorically dismissing all metaphysical beliefs is one of the sillier trends of our age.
questioning Darl to his face, similarly, would help you little. he made his statements and is sticking to them, and so we deal with them -- considering them right, wrong, deceitful, or lunatic ravings. but we don't fool ourselves by thinking "if we could only ask Darl a few more questions the truth would come out!"
my logic has grown foggy. time for bed.
I certainly agree with that -- but differentiating enthusiasm from truth is quite different than snorting at enthusiasm as being meaningless as evidence of at least personal conviction.
Troll? Wha? Yeah -- that was a silly mod.
Now, reasonable does not mean it's *worth* your or my money. Certainly not mine. But for someone already throwing out dozens of dollars each month, who has the money to spend, and is willing to throw out an extra few to do something that they think is fun without the effort of programming/finding/whatevering it themselves.....I'm not sure that's so much weirder than paying $14 for a two-hour movie and a little bag of buttered grain, that I could obtain for myself with a walk to the library and a small garden.
Burns: This sounds like bad news.
Doctor: Well, you'd think so, but all of your diseases are in perfect balance.
amen to that -- the high-pitched whine wasn't a fan, it was a faulty power converter. they replaced ours no-questions asked.
I'd sure be interested in adding a grammar checker to my filter -- not that failed messages should all be hosed, but any message with a paragraph of gibberish should be flagged -- and grammar checkers have been correctly picking up run-ons and bad subject-object agreement for over a decade.
Makes sense. I've done research since then -- the modern US supercarriers have power plants that approach 500 MW -- full, land based reactors are 500-2000, so it seems likely they could power a city. Other ships seem to be in the 20-30 range. All from Wikipedia, mind you, so take with a grain of salt.
that's....that's the point. they're being pains in the arse to be mean to MozCo for drawing a line in the sand. it's like naming it PoopyheadFox.
yeah...but i kinda figure if i wash my hands somewhat regularly, then the germies on my keyboard have become *my* germies over time...i don't expect to actually get sick when exposed to 400 or 4000 percent more of the germs i'm exposed to every day -- that my body's used to fighting -- when compared to a single exposure to someone with a novel strain of the flu.